The Massacre

At exactly midnight...a massacre happened.

Kurapika was furious as apparently, he got along with his new colleagues to some extent and the Spider posing as host and bodyguard killed them.

What happened was a massacre as the big 'frankensten look-alike' had his fingertips come off and started firing nen bullets enough to mow down from front to the back, covering the distance from stage to door but he still kept firing as if wanting to tear them to shreds, not just holes.

'Someone used a nen ability to create black ghosts and two others hid behind him but it was no good.' said Naruko as they got into a car.

'That must've been Tochino.' said Senritsu as its her, Kurapika and Naruko with her in a car.

'The bullets are too strong so this guy is a Master Emitter. A woman with a top-knot and big guy dashed out of the door, but a black-haired girl bashed him on the head with a vacuum cleaner and it ate him. Then she did one big jump to bash top-knot too and she too, was eaten. She then went to the room of blood and shredded flesh where her companions are, saying its her job. She sucked away the bodies, blood and chairs...effectively making evidence disappear. Then at the vaults, more of them came to take the items. The supervisor out of fear revealed it was taken beforehand, thinking he'll be let go but for obvious reasons, he was killed...and then the girl dressed like a ninja noticed all my flies and had someone deal with them so I can't follow any more. My flies will all be killed since that girl's senses are sharp while her companions in the bidding room and vault room couldn't sense them.'

"Its the Spider...they're here!" Kurapika swore at that as Naruko told the group what she found and at the hotel, all they found was a bloodied bracelet that belonged to Vaise, the sole proof they were all killed.

They soon heard of a hot air balloon going to Gordeau Desert and suspecting it was a get-away ride and all mafia cars followed it there...while they wisely did the safe thing...watch from afar.

'Ah ah, they're all gonna die.' said Naruko, utterly uncaringly. 'What can mere men do against Nen-Users?'

'While that fact is certain, our job is information.' said Dallzorne. 'All we could do, is watch.'

'Aren't we going to record this?'

'A Phone's video camera isn't that good.' said Basho. 'That's why all we could do is witness.'

'And we all had to rush here there's no time to scrounge for a video camera.' Squala sighed.

'Ah, too bad.'

They watched as the massacre began, with the big guy doing it himself while some watched and some started playing cards!

'Terrible strength there...those hands are made for crushing bone and flesh.' Naruko narrated. 'He must be an Enhancer since his fighting style is no better than a juggernaut's, but its highly-effective combined with his size, hard musculature and of course, his weight and the force he applies. Not even bullets can scratch him and if you use Gyo...he's using a bare amount of Ten yet if any weaker Nen-User does that, they'd still get pierced depending on their level but this guy...clearly mastered his category.' she said as the others used Gyo in the eyes to see what she saw.

'Rate him.' Kurapika ordered.

'His Nen is Master Class but fighting skill is amusing...A-Class tops. If his fighting was good, he'd be an S unless he was holding back since he's just toying with ordinary humans while snapping all their bones with mere swipes. So the question is, how good is he really if up against a Nen-User capable of going toe-to-toe with him? You have to be a 100% nen master just to pierce that barely-there Ten of his which makes me wonder what if he went serious and used Ken and fought with Koboryoku at his 100%. He'd be S-Class.' Naruko piped up. 'His fighting style would no longer matter. You're mashed soft meat and ground bone in seconds anyway.'

'That's a horrifying prospect.' Basho shuddered. 'I'm no idiot. Call me a coward if you like but my life is more important, thanks.' he wonders what the hell is this kid that this sight doesn't terrify her at all. She just watches calmly as if this was normal to look at.

'No way I'm ordering anybody to do that.' Dallzorne grunted. 'You'd have to be insane or soulless. And we're Hunters AND Bodyguards, not official mafia so we really happily have no reason to be down there stupidly senselessly.' he said as they looked at the senseless massacre down below.

'Humm...you got a good boss, Kurapika.' Naruko told the blonde as man in question did a double-take.

'I don't know him much...' Kurapika admitted. 'I hardly see him.' Naruko raised an eyebrow and Kurapika wondered what she learned in the Estate of Death as he calls it. She's shown to be more...caring? But as far as that concerned, it only extended to very few individuals below 20 in numbers. 'But what would you do if he was anything but?'

'Oh, he's gonna die so you'll live longer.' came the casual answer and she said it so innocently in her usual child-like manner but dissonant serenity came with it which was jarring.

'What?!' the men all yelped in disbelief.

'I like very few people...I tend to get protective and I found that out. I learned that in a couple months when they taught me more about human values and stuff other than what's expected of me. They finished what you and Leorio started.' said Naruko.

'Oh...'

What the hell is this girl, feral?! was their thoughts.

That had to be since she didn't even know human values and morals before!

'And she's serious about it too...' Senritsu whimpered as she can happily talk about killing while her heartbeat changed to that of a dark murderer's and overprotectiveness at the same time. How can a heartbeat be like this?! Then she balked because of a new presence.

'Another heartbeat...' she gasped out. 'It went a step onhead.'

'What?!'

'Hmmm, a mole.' said Naruko as they soon saw burrows slowly crawl towards them. 'Kurapika, do we look or kill?' even if Nostrade hired her on Kurapika's suggestion, her CO is still Kurapika who knows her best.

'We wait and see.' said Kurapika as soon, a pinkish and rather-long head came out of the ground and rose. His body is terrible in appearance and proportion and wore a speedo and nothing else which was...freaky.

'I'm Worm of the Shadow Beasts.' he said in a creepy voice. 'What clan are you from?'

'We're the bodyguards of Mr. Nostrade, subordinate to the Ritz Clan.' said Dallzorne nervously.

'I see, the Nostrade eh? I can sense you know Nen, but its best not to interfere.' Worm advised, unaware that there's someone stronger than all of them combined and was deliberately pretending to be weak.

'He's no mere thief.' said a guy in a long-sleeved shirt and looked like a canine.

'Killing is a large part of his life, so he's a pro.' said a short, pudgy bald man in a red tracksuit.

'He's a specialist.' said another with a portly belly and a red nose.

To some, they came out of the blue.

While their Zetsu was perfect and clearly stronger than the Nostrade Bodyguards...they were still weaker than the Spider.

To the blondes, they just came to die. When they were far from earshot...

'Boring. Just more bodies.' Naruko drawled. 'They're weaker than the weakest Spider present and that's saying something. They're weaker than glasses girl with the vacuum cleaner.'

'Aren't you a ball of sunshine.' said Basho sarcastically.

'She speaks the truth at least,' said Senritsu in utter resignation. 'She would know them best because she technically has been in the building to get a grasp of their level. Her heartbeat suggests she truly believes this as fact.'

'So Kurapika, anything else for me to do?' Naruko asked him. 'Father has forbidden the family to have anything to do with them.'

The Family Head forbade the Zoldycks to have anything to do with the Spider?

'Well, leave the involvement to us.' said Kurapika. 'For now information is your job. Nothing about fighting or anything to do with them unless its to defend yourself.' he instructed. 'But why were you forbidden?'

'The leader can steal Nen Abilities.' Naruko quipped as Dallzorne and Squala paled in horror as their minds flashed the young miss they were protecting. 'In essence, the others can tell him what Nen Abilities they encounter, tell him what's good and what's not, then he'll come after you to steal what you hard-earned for years. So unless you're a really good fighter and killer, facing them is a bad idea but if you're confident, go ahead as long as they don't live afterward to rat on you.' she said. 'I was especially the most forbidden.'

Kurapika really wondered what her Nen ability is that she was forbidden anything to do with them at all. That, and that information rather complicates things, meaning, he has to kill him as fast as possible and to do that, he has to learn how to damn fight asap.

'M-my god...' Dallzorne looked like his blood left him. 'Is this true?'

'Un.' Naruko nodded. 'Apparently, some years in the past, father fought and killed a member so Chrollo Lucilfer himself came after him. Father says he has a book with faces of people per page...and he noticed that when he has these pages on, he could use various Nen Abilities it was easy to figure that out with basic common sense but its unknown what happens to people he stole from. He is thus an armory of Nen Abilities. But his true Nen is stealing.'

'We can't let them know of the Miss no matter what.' Dallzorne swore. 'I'll tell the boss of this! Who's your father? We need a source!'

'Oh, he's actually my father-in-law since I'm engaged to his third son...Silva Zoldyck.'

The Hunters balked.

To earn that right, it means she's a killer herself.

True to her words, they were dead, with the last attack being one hell of a nen-infused roar that amplified his voice enough to kill.

So Kurapika began thinking.

But he still made a decision anyway.

'Naruko. I want to capture that muscle-head.' said Kurapika. 'I can do it from afar and fast enough to do so.'

'Humm...if you are 100% sure, then do so. Only move when you are absolute certain of your victory. If there's even a percent less, don't do it. 99% is never good enough because that 1% less is fatal in this case as we have quite the crew here, all of them S-Class.' said Naruko, looking at the number of spiders. 'Just incase, someone get the engines ready in the other car, I'll get the other car ready.'

'Alright.' Dallzorne started the other car and Naruko did the other.

Kurapika struck his attack, using In to launch his chains, only making it appear when they're secured around the target enough and spirited him away upwards...

Once Kurapika got him, Naruko checked with Gyo...and took out the needle with nen string and stuck it to a rock and they sped off.

xxx

At the Nostrade Mansion...

Naruko waited outside the room because they were interrogating the man in the basement, but when they came out...they clearly didn't get anything.

'Nothing eh? As expected.' said Naruko. 'Anyway, don't bother reporting this. Death awaits you if you do as by now they staked the Information Center and worse, pretend to be them through a Manipulator. This clearly says you can gain nothing catching them because they'll come after you. You can only gain if you kill this guy as that means one less Spider and a step closer to destroying the brigade.'

'Well, that's all we have then.' Dallzorne sighed. 'The problem is the boss. We'll channel your pay to your account.' Naruko merely nodded.

'Kurapika, I still have others to do.' said Naruko. 'Will you be alright?'

'Aa. We have a lot to consider ourselves.' said her fellow blonde with a forced smile and Naruko ran off into the hallways to leave the hotel to go to her fiancee to prevent him from doing stupid things.

She located him not long ago too.

xxx

In a cheap hotel...then again, he's broke as he's pretty much messing around lately...so she has to be the responsible one, she thought in exasperation.

She stole a lot of groceries for the sake of whipping up a meal worthy of home at least.

By next morning...

'Uwooooh?!' they followed their noses when they smelled something delicious, only to find...a feast waiting for them.

'Naruko!'

Yep, she's responsible.

Roasted piglet smeared with sauce and sauteed vegetables also with sauce surrounding it aesthetically. Then soup, a number of sandwiches, paella, and beef steaks piled on high, with a large bowl of sauce next to it...and a large bowl of...noodles? And she's eating said noodles that has oodles of toppings.

'Breakfast, then we'll talk.' she stated as she was already eating her food.

'R-right!'

Naruko thought, Jabba Table Manners much?

In the Zoldyck Estate, you are expected to eat properly in dining etiquette. Mama emphasizes on proper manners yet somehow Killua really let go.

Then again, she wasn't one to talk before adoption, so she supposed she'll just let go herself.

But still, this ramen thing's really good...and considering how she cooked it, all the better.

She grew to like this dish in Jappon, and studied how to make it. Some cheap restaurants use 'instant flavor powder', while high-class restaurants boil a lot of ingredients for more than 20 hours on end, filter, add ingredients, filter again...until a good base, the dashi is made to the Head Chef's standards. After a dashi is made, the sauce kaeshi is next and of course, chef's recipe...then flavorings like herbs, spices, salt...and if all those didn't match, the flavors won't consolidate and fail. Thus Ramen is a high-class dish...if a good chef did it.

Her cooked ramen was boiled about overnight only up till morning at eight since they slept in. Its pretty good but she wondered what would happen if she boiled it for longer!

Perhaps she can just 'screw it' and just have the soup and toppings? Too much noodles is bad after all...

After breakfast...

'So what happened in the weeks you left home?' Naruko asked Killua. 'You left earlier than I did that father asked me to teach you what you missed out on.' Naruko piped up.

'What I missed out on?' Killua blinked as Naruko flared her aura. 'Oh, that? We already learned Nen in Heaven's Arena where we earned some cash.' he told her.

'Oh. Show me then.'

But when they did, she was annoyed.

'That's it for three months?!' she cried. 'Who is your teacher who should die?!' she cried. 'You could have done more than this paltry presence in three months!' she fumed. 'Anything else?'

'Well, I showed him my place, Whale Island while Leorio went to College.' said Gon. 'We played in the forests together and well...he's never seen countryside life before...'

'Well, been in cities all my life I've never been to such a place.' Killua sweatdropped. 'Its so out of the way you don't even know what Joystation is!'

'Joystation?' Naruko raised an eyebrow.

'Yeah, got a clue about Gon's dad, Greed Island.' said Killua.

'Ah, that's up for bid in Southernpiece Auction for five days, starting 6-10.' said Naruko. 'Starting price is 5.8 billion jenny...but tough luck getting it.' she said. 'Because some rich billionnaire always outbids everyone every year, as if he's just giving his money away to the proceeds just for a few consoles. He's collecting the darn things.'

'Eh?! Why?!' Gon cried. 'What for?!'

'Not even his agents know.' said Naruko. 'Its not even on files or data records. He hires Hunters to bring back items for him and the reward is 50 billion but so far, nobody's cleared it yet, they just turn up dead because death happens for real. There are two ways but one might be out of the question.'

'What's that?' Leorio asked her.

'I stole a console for Milluki since I thought he'd like one.' three jaws dropped. 'And as of last night a team of butlers came to get it from me around three in the morning and outsiders who aren't invited are welcome unless father permits you guys.' and Naruko meaningfully looked at Gon and Leorio. 'The second way, is being hired by the Billionnaire but we got work to do.' she moaned. 'The way you are now, you'll drop out of the preliminary testings.'

'T-then what do we do until hiring day?' Gon asked her desperately.

'Until hiring day...we'll work hard on your basics.' said Naruko. 'Killua, for now I won't tell your parents because I don't know how they'll react if they see this level...they were really strict with me and Kalluto we often faint a lot.' she sighed, making Killua wonder how exactly were they Nen Trained. 'So its my turn to make you faint a lot and no complaining because father expects monthly reports.'

Killua thought, "Oh, shit..."

'But first let me see what your teacher taught you. Both verbally and technique...'

Verbally-wrong in some parts, technique is somewhat OK and she corrected the boys who were taught the Fake Fundamentals(to their chagrin, especially Leorio's because he learned from them) because Nen can be turned into dangerous weapons, it must not be taught to outsiders carelessly. For that reason, some Nen masters devised a fake set of Four Fundamentals in which the real Nen terms are either replaced by homophones or are explained incorrectly. In this case, their Nen Teacher must have thought that the boys might carelessly use their Nen thus taught them wrong(which pissed off both boys, especially Killua who was never 'treated' like a child since he started assassin training). So she explained 'True Nen' to them.

She explained the REAL Four Fundamentals, Applications, Quantification of Aura, the Nen System and Categorization + existences of Nen Curses and Exorcism and Aura Flow Control...and subjected them to training for five days in different schedules in Fundamentals, and five days in applications...

'So I guess with one plan in, we won't look for the Brigade anymore since we have a saner way out.' said Leorio.

This earned them a creepy stare from their new instructor.

'Care to tell me what's that all about...?' she drawled. 'Why are you looking for they-who-are-S-Class Nen Users?'

'W-well,' Gon sweated...

By the end of that explanation, all three of them sported three bumps and Naruko who was once incapable of emotion...could now normally express her ire!

On the other hand on Kurapika's side...

The bodyguards decided to kill the man they captured and somehow bury the fact they did it because the boss will be unreasonable. His existence was excluded in the reports, and Kurapika killed him in private. It was also chaos in the manor, with them packing up to go home despite the daughter's wishes to stay...with Kurapika managing to wrangle to remain in York Shin as an informant until auction ends.

That, and he wanted to catch more Spiders...and he's planning accordingly too judging by the order of the Spiders in the list while doing Homework Naruko gave him as she knew full well how strong they are the best in regards to Nen but question mark on their combat skills and abilities.

xxx

By the end of the first night...All Gon, Killua and Leorio could think of, was 'poor me!'

After breakfast was Ten until lunchtime. After lunch was three hours of Ren. After that is three hours of 'perfect ideal Zetsu' training. After dinner is Hatsu with Water Training and the last three hours is Gyo training.

This was for five days but three hours was a monumental task for them. They could barely do Ten for three hours, but Ren was way too much for them, so for now they have six hours of Ten to do so...

Unknown to them, Naruko also has a good reason to exhaust them to the point they sleep so deeply and soundly even Killua's highly-tuned senses can't even notice her actions.

It was so she could leave to secretly meet Kurapika to help him out.

That, and she's got one thing to confess...